This week’s Tablet TALK highlights robotics teams at Brooklyn and Queens schools, offers opportunities to grow in faith and fellowship, invites readers to get involved in water awareness and so much more.

On May 2, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and the New York Blood Center recognized the parishes, schools and individuals in Brooklyn and Queens who made significant contributions to the 2016 blood drive campaign.

The Men’s Club at St. Columba parish, Marine Park, hosts four different blood drives each year as the number of donors continues to rise. Last year, there were 295 donations, compared to 116 the year before.

A Masss of Christian Burial for Father Edward J. Kiernan, a senior priest of the diocese who last served as the pastor of St. Columba parish, Marine Park, was celebrated Sept. 28 at the Basilica of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Southampton, L.I.